Author Profile
Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke is Anishinaabe, a writer, an economist and a hemp farmer, working on a book about the Eighth Fire and the Green New Deal. She is ready for the Green Path, and would prefer not to spend her golden years cleaning up the messes of entitled white men.
LaDuke lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, where she founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project. She is program director of Honor the Earth and a two-time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket.
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How To Build the Zero-Carbon Economy
The Green New Deal sets an ambitious goal. Here’s how to get there. MORE
Features · April 22, 2019
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The Rights of Wild Rice
Manoomin (wild rice) now has legal rights. At the close of 2018, the White Earth band of Ojibwe recognized the “Rights of Manoomin” as a part of tribal regulatory authority.  ... MORE
Rural America · February 21, 2019
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The Renaissance of Tribal Hemp
This spring, after gathering on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota and then in Colorado, tribal “hempsters” are working toward a renaissance of the plant that once clothed much... MORE
Rural America · April 21, 2018
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Cannibal Economics: Why the Black Snake Will Eventually Eat Itself
As the plagued Keystone Pipeline spilled 200,000 gallons of oil near the Sisseton Dakota reservation, on November 20, the Nebraska Public Service Commission issued a convoluted permit approval, allowing TransCanada to route the line... MORE
Rural America · December 9, 2017
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The Tricky Relationship Between Marijuana and American Indians
“You have an unmotivated person and you become more unmotivated on cannabis. I am afraid that the self esteem of our people is not going to handle legalizing it well.” &mdash... MORE
Rural America · December 19, 2015
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Restoring a Multi-Cultural Society in a Sacred Place
“Originally all the inhabitants of the earth (Chippewa Indians) who were to learn the Mide lived on Madeline Island, in Lake Superior, in that portion of the country. They were selected by... MORE
Rural America · April 21, 2015
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Worse Than Keystone
The pipeline project you've never heard of. MORE
Features · January 5, 2015
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The Iroquois Nationals at the World Lacrosse Championships
The Iroquois lacrosse team plays to win, while their nation fights to have its sovereignty recognized. MORE
Features · August 9, 2014